[52041] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailer passphrases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Tue Mar 12 17:30:53 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:03:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199603121951.OAA02237@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> Signed Diffie-Hellman key exchanges have the property known as
> "Perfect Forward Secrecy". Even if the opponent gets your public keys
Just to clarify Perry's statement- Diffie-Helman key exchanges can
provide Perfect forward secrecy if fresh parameters are used each time-
protocols like the old version of SKIP, which do not use fresh paramaters
each time, do not provide perfect forward secrecy.
Simon
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